5 lessons missing from the ‘Walking Dead’ online college course

The class will teach you about social order and spread of disease, but not how to kill the undead.

In order to survive a zombie apocalypse, you’ll need to know how to find supplies and fend off the undead. However, a new online class seems to miss some of the vital lessons required to stay alive.

The course frames lessons on nutrition, social order, and the spread of infectious disease through the hit show The Walking Dead. But there doesn’t seem to be any room for teaching students how to actually kill the undead.

The 2009 film Zombieland has excellent advice for dealing with zombies. The most important of all is keeping fit.

3) Be careful who you trust

In season 3, we see a group taking refuge in a barricaded town. The trouble is, it’s run by a sociopathic monster called The Governor who’d happy watch zombies tear apart his rivals. He even kills his own people. In a world populated by the undead, keep your friends close, and your enemies far away.

4) Make friends with a survivalist

Any hardy band of survivors needs someone resourceful enough to keep them alive. The Walking Dead gang has Daryl, a hunter and skilled tracker, to find supplies and quickly dispatch the undead. He is also a witty fan favorite.

5) Be ruthless

The core group spent much of season 2 hunting for a missing child in the woods. Of course, the little girl eventually reappeared as one of the infected. The best thing to do when a kid goes missing for more than a couple of days is to assume the worst and move on, as harsh as that may seem.

Based in Montreal, Kris Holt has been writing about technology and web culture since 2010. He writes for Engadget and Tech News World, and his byline has also appeared in Paste, Salon, International Business Times, Mashable, and elsewhere.